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Another amusing instalment in the series of articles about Rayners lane school.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/headmaster-starmer-fails-to-reassure-the-parents-of-the-nation/
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The withdrawal of the US from the WHO will have implications for both parties
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/01/31/us-withdrawal-from-who-leaves-real-problems-unaddressed/
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Apparently written by someone with an anti-TRUMP agenda.
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The article is superficially reasonable, except it is a complete whitewash, an exoneration of WHO. I remember 26 Jan 2020 when the current head of WHO Tedros Adhonom announced that the virus was ‘not transmissable person to person’. This remains the most potent lie ever told of what he renamed as COVID when it was the Wuhan Flu..
WHO was captured by the Chinese when Dr Tedros was made President and immediately went to China to thank President Xi. He remains the first non medical professional head of WHO with a minor health PhD from Norfolk University. He took no Hippocratic oath. And his sponsor China pays less than even Nigeria, but control the WHO. This is a standard communist takeover. And Tedros was part of the violent communist revolutionary group, the ‘Tigray People’s Liberation Front’ who took over Ethiopia. He became Minister of Health.
And once the CCP army lab made bioweapon virus escaped, China did everything possible to spread the virus. With direct help from WHO. This enabled Nancy Pelosi to accuse President Trump of Xenophobia! And even the Communist mayor of Florence announced ‘hug a Chinese’ day. Why? Italy was devastated, especially partner cities in the textile trade.
Millions of infected Chinese were flying out while the virus was raging in China. 3/4 million Chinese flew to America while the Chinese communist party knew all about it. While the virus infected whole cities and provinces in China in a state of emergency, the Chinese Communists deliberately spread the virus overseas, as intended. It hit millions including leaders across the world with WHO support. Boris Johnson nearly died. President Trump was infected. Countries were decimated. It all went very well from the Chinese point of view, even if it failed to kill off Western National leaders. WHO was complicit, from the top down.
Whatever the ethics and qualifications and intent of the 8,000 employees of WHO, the reality is that their communist appointed bosses allowed and encouraged the virus to spread, the untested innoculations, massive pharma profits and freedom to experiment on live populations with experimental drugs and technologies regardless of the opinions and ethics of the employees of WHO. This was not the reason WHO existed. The organization was totally complicit.
These captured groups within the captured UN, WHO and IPCC must not be funded.
WHO failed completely in its fundamental reason for existence, to contain and control pandemics. And stop the Chinese flu but it was clearly directed by the Chinese government. It was directly responsible for the disaster, hiding the incredible danger and denying the desperate need for containment. As such it needs to be defunded and Dr. Tedros Adhonom and his boss and promoter, President XI, should be on trial for crimes against humanity for the millions of avoidable deaths.
If the WHO cannot be trusted to prevent pandemics, the UN cannot be trusted to prevent war. This huge organization of 80,000 people has become a parody of the original vision. And in every field, pushing destructive policies on all countries while protecting China from any criticism.
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Excellent summary TdeF.
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While the COVID virus did not “escape”, it was certainly carelessly leaked. The Wuhan Lab while being constructed had contracted French bio-engineers to oversee bio-security, but when the protocols demanded by the French contractors became too onerous to meet construction deadlines, those contractors were sacked.
There is no doubt that the CCP hierarchy was momentarily blind-sided by that premature leak, but their very quick first reaction was to close down internal flights into Beijing (to protect the politicians) and Shanghai (to protect the banks – the money). Everywhere else both in China and globally was deliberately left open and vulnerable.
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” . . . . . Shanghai (to protect the banks – the money).”
Maybe that was a factor in Rabobank’s Michael Every listing “Wuhan” as among the ten or so economic red flags, in his October/November 2019 seminars in New Zealand.
He said ” I don’t know what this (Wuhan) is , but it’s something to watch.”
So we watched it.
Is H5N1 going to be an economic factor , do you think?
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A petition to remove Tedros from the WHO presidency got over a million signatures and was simply ignored.
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I am proud to announce the formation in the UK of the “Nowhere Near as Clever as We Think We are, Party” (NNACAWTWAP)
We hope to bring in politicians who, self evidently to everyone else except themselves, have been promoted far beyond their levels of competence or experience.
The first members to be appointed are the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Climate Maestro Ed Miliband and Chancellor Rachel Reeves as they are so ideally suited to the objectives of the party. At our first AGM, top of the agenda will be a discussion on whether Politicians should automatically become members but provide a mechanism for them to opt out, in the unlikely event they can prove their competence or expertise.
I am sure there are no politicians in Oz who could fit happily into NNACAWTWAP so our international expansion may need to be restricted to the very fertile grounds of the EU.
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That’s an annoyingly-long initialism; just shorten it to the “Room Temperature IQ Party” — RTIQ. You could say that it would be RTIQulous…
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No politicians in OZ who would fit in? We have lots of them, from our Energy Minister Blackout Bowen who imitates Millibrain to most of the current Federal Govt. (except the 4 who have just announced their retirement guessing how the coming election will turn out) and the Victorian Labor government lot who would beat the Scottish Nationals in a one legged race (assuming they don’t want to walk across Port Philip bay).
And in a parochial moment I would note the SA State Opposition Party if I could remember their names -Hari Kari?.
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https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/the-avian-influenza-trilogy-another
Vivian rightly wondered whether this was a PCR carpet bombing or there was a specific reason for testing. The two are not the same. One thing is having symptoms and a heavy viral load and another an incidental finding in someone up to his/her eyebrows in chicken whatnot. Peter W put it even more succinctly.
“Thank you for your sample. What would you like us to find in it?”
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I was discussing Melbourne’s forthcomin Heatwave with Chatgpt, and chat doesn’t have access to BOM data. Can anyone point to where Chatgpt can get this Data?
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Boxcar,
If stuck, you could always ask the Australian “Climate Change/Energy” Minister.
Similar to Chatgpt, Our Australian CC/Energy Minister also has artificial intelligence.
And if you read his press releases… You will find he knows all the answers.
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“Net Zero” is the average IQ of the ‘Pollies’.
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From Perplexity:
The hottest 4 consecutive days in Melbourne, Australia occurred from January 14 to 17, 2014. During this period, Melbourne experienced temperatures exceeding 41°C (105.8°F) for four consecutive days[2][5]. This event is considered the hottest heatwave on record for Melbourne[5].
Specifically, the details of this record-breaking heatwave are:
1. It lasted from January 14 to 17, 2014.
2. Temperatures exceeded 41°C each day.
3. The maximum temperature reached 43.9°C (111°F).
4. It was the first time Melbourne had four consecutive days above 41°C.
This heatwave had significant impacts on the city, including:
– Water usage almost doubled for the week.
– Heart attacks increased to 4 times the normal rate.
– Over 200 deaths were reported to the coroner, twice the normal rate.
– There was a 20-fold increase in ambulance calls.
– Major train system disruptions occurred due to failed air conditioning and grassfires[5].
It’s worth noting that while Melbourne has experienced other significant heatwaves, this particular event in January 2014 stands out as the most extreme in terms of consecutive days with such high temperatures[1][3].
Citations:
[1] http://seenanotherway.com/a-week-over-30-how-rare-is-melbournes-current-heatwave/
[2] https://www.health.vic.gov.au/environmental-health/research-and-reports-extreme-heat-and-heatwaves
[3] https://ckrao.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/the-frequency-of-40-days-in-melbourne/
[4] https://apac.dtn.com/energy/melbourne-facing-hottest-spell-in-11-years/
[5] https://www.ayton.id.au/wiki/doku.php?id=australia%3Amelbourne_weather_records
[6] https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/t2xjnf/what_has_happened_to_the_40c_days/
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_in_Melbourne
[8] https://www.climatechange.vic.gov.au/victorias-changing-climate
I checked with BoM and it shows those 4 days above 40C:
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=2014&p_c=-1481845227&p_stn_num=086077
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Sunday music.
Greta von Thunderberg sings death metal.
https://youtu.be/1kD1zubg3cA
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Gawd, that is ugly, the music I mean.
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Tweet by President TRUMP.
He doesn’t mince words.
Excellent!
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Winter 2025 in Hawai’i –
“Maunakea Access Road remains CLOSED … due to snow and ice … and freezing temperatures”, presently -3.3C.
http://mkwc.ifa.hawaii.edu/#
Select Road Conditions, or for numerous views of the snow-clad summit and observatories, select Webcams. Aloha and Mahalo!
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You need a “heatwave”.
We supposedly have one in Melbournistan.
Saturday got to 27C (81F) (official prediction), Sunday is predicted to be 33C (91F).
It is so bad that my local libraries are extending their opening hours as a refuge during these “extreme” conditions. Even buses to take you there.
Obviously the definition of “heatwave” has been altered to suit the Official Narrative. This level of heat is not extreme or unusual for any place in Australia at this time of year.
Back in the day this would have been considered good beach weather, not something to seek refuge from.
https://library.portphillip.vic.gov.au/what-s-on/heatwave
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Righteeyo NewZild News really poured it on this morning.
First up :-
“Trenchal rine over most of Strarleeya” , continuous , apparently , but not where the whole place is going up in smoke – fighting bush fires everywhere , apparently , except where the flooding is beyond catastrophic , which is most of it , apparently.
Item two :_
Plines falling out of the sky , everywhere , apparently, except where they’re helicopters.
Yillall be rooned.
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It was 32C on the Maryborough Rifle Range yesterday David…totally normal for the first day of February in sunny Queensland. No mention of a heat wave. I was however, glad to get home and crank up the A/C.
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David’
here it was 26C on Friday which maximum only occurred late in the afternoon. Saturday got to 38C about 1pm. We are expecting hot days for the next 3 days.
We are upwind (fortunately) from Victoria – its the stench from your discomposing Labor mod when we have our own coming from our Opposition (though who they oppose except each other remains undecided).
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Ever since the CCCult began, we’ve been warned we’d have Sydney’s climate if we didn’t don hairshirts and worship the sun/wind gods – except, yet again, Sydney is enjoying our climate of (forecast) 28C today. What? No deadly heatwave?
Meanwhile nowhere in the South Island is forecast to even reach 20C today: summer’s big chill continues. Climate Change! Climate Change! Climate Change!
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It is 4.2km high (13,700 feet) Comparable to the height of much of Antarctica. But inside the tropics at 22 North, it shows no effect from Global Warming.
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When President TRUMP spoke about DEI and the tragic Washington DC plane crash, he was not referring to the pilots, or air traffic control or blaming anyone in particular.
He was referring to understaffing of air traffic control because of a lack of recruits due to racist DEI policies preventing qualified white people people being employed. Similarly for airline pilots.
TRUMP made it very clear that he is unconcerned about a person’s skin colour or gender, but that they must be competent and qualified for the job.
Matt Walsh has warned about DEI pilots:
https://youtu.be/qlSbvmJt928
It’s only a matter of time before there is a major disaster due to DEI pilot(s) and air traffic controllers, if one hasn’t happened already.
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Farcebook staff rebellion.
Because women’s sanitary products were removed from men’s bathrooms.
This must be another positive outcome of TRUMP’S two gender policy.
Leftists are in Meltdown.
These are the same people who “fact check” your posts and manipulate elections and public thinking.
They are the ones that said covid “vaccines” were fully safe and effective and say “men can have babies”.
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If you Goolag the exact search term (no quote marks):
You get the answer:
Despite the TRUMP Revolution, woke search and AI engines like Goolag remain powerful weapons of the Left to spread their falsehoods and outright lies.
The Left aren’t easily going to give up on their quest to destroy our Civilisation.
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I saw a comment yesterday which asked if a gay transgender was in fact straight.
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Apparently a LOT of M to F transgenders call themselves “transbians”, i.e. they are men who dress as women who like to use women’s bathrooms and change rooms and still have a preference for women.
Psychologists call this autogynephilia:
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100,000 Patriots March in London to #FreeTommyRobinson and Dance to “YMCA” to Make England Great Again!
Net Zero reports on our MSM?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-live-100000-patriots-march-london-freetommyrobinson/
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